Totally confused

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  benjity · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 12:10 am

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  I just bought a godaddy domain and mapped my wordpress.com blog to it. Today when I tried to design a website that simply includes my blog, I lost it all and now I can’t seem to bring up my wordpress.com blog at wordpress.com or my mapped to domain. I get an error message. Please, somebody help. At this point I’m ready to say forget the domain/website thing just give me back my free blog. I have a good readership that I’m afraid I’m going to lose. Can I un-map and just go back to plain old wordpress.com?
  Thank you for any advice.

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 12:55 am

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  Per your previous forum topics, it looks like you want to go self-hosted, notably because you want to monetize your blog.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-wordpresscom-blog-to-hosted-domain-at-godaddy?replies=3
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-to-owned-godaddy-domain-?replies=10

  So what is it that you want to do? Move to a self-hosted blog? Or stay at WordPress.com?

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  benjity · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 2:06 am

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  Well, first off you’re brilliant to be confused about what I need (:
  I really want to be self-hosted and monetize. But if I’m not smart enough (:
  I just at least want to go back to what I had before at wordpress.com.
  Can anyone walk me through this? The “happiness experts” at wordpress who can guide me through it seem to be on vacation.

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 1:29 am

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  Provided you didn’t cancel your domain mapping upgrade with WordPress.com, and provided you are certain this is what you really want to do, just follow these steps one more time.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/